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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] solved APM bug with -rc5
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:52:16PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
 > > diff -urN linux-2.4.19-rc5/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c linux-2.4.19-rc5-fix/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
 > > --- linux-2.4.19-rc5/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c	Thu Aug  1 22:07:39 2002
 > > +++ linux-2.4.19-rc5-fix/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c	Thu Aug  1 22:26:56 2002
 > 
 > Hm. I bet you didn't try this with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, right? IIRC, the
 > wonderful world of preemption means that you can get rescheduled on
 > another CPU without warning, unless you take a lock or explicitely
 > disable preemption.

It's a 2.4 patch. Leave preemption problems to those insane
enough to run 2.4+preempt.

        Dave

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